NAME

WWW::OpenSearch - Search A9 OpenSearch compatible engines

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::OpenSearch;
    
    my $url = "http://bulkfeeds.net/opensearch.xml";
    my $engine = WWW::OpenSearch->new($url);
    
    my $name = $engine->description->ShortName;
    my $tags = $engine->description->Tags;
    
    # Perform search for "iPod"
    my $response = $engine->search("iPod");
    for my $item (@{$response->feed->items}) {
        print $item->{description};
    }
    
    # Retrieve the next page of results
    my $next_page = $response->next_page;
    for my $item (@{$next_page->feed->items}) {
        print $item->{description};
    }

DESCRIPTION

WWW::OpenSearch is a module to search A9's OpenSearch compatible search engines. See http://opensearch.a9.com/ for details.

CONSTRUCTOR

new( $url )

Constructs a new instance of WWW::OpenSearch using the given URL as the location of the engine's OpenSearch Description document (retrievable via the description_url accessor).

METHODS

fetch_description( [ $url ] )

Fetches the OpenSearch Descsription found either at the given URL or at the URL specified by the description_url accessor. Fetched description may be accessed via the description accessor.